Peter Jones

Reading Virgil

Mitwirkender: Jones, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edition of the first two books of Virgil's twelve-book masterpiece the Aeneid is designed to provide all the help that someone who has finished an introductory course in Latin will need to read Virgil accurately, intelligently and with maximum benefit and pleasure.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780521171540
• ISBN-10: 0521171547
• Artikelnr.: 32220377

Autorenporträt

Peter Jones is a jazz singer and journalist based in London. He read English at St Peter's College, Oxford, and after a brief sojourn at the University of New Mexico he returned to England and began working as a pop music journalist. After a decade as a film and TV publicist, during which he was the researcher for the autobiography of Spitting Image founder Roger Law, he gained an MA in Film and Television Studies from the University of Westminster. Until 2015 he taught film and media at a variety of London colleges, and published a short book on black cinema (BFI Publishing), followed by a handbook for Media and Film students (Hodder Arnold). For several years he played bass in a jazz sextet, before deciding to concentrate on singing. At around the time of his first album ('One Way Ticket to Palookaville' - 2013) he developed a serious interest in the work of Mark Murphy, which has continued ever since. He began working for London Jazz News, reviewing concerts and CDs, and conducting interviews, including one with Kurt Elling in 2015. His second album ('Utopia') was released in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Glossary of literary terms; Notes for the reader; Help with the text; Grammar; Metre and verse in the Aeneid; Bibliography; Maps; Book I. Aeneas' mission: from storm to refuge: topics for extended essays on Book I; Book II. Aeneas' account of the destruction of Ilium: topics for extended essays on Book II; Some views for general discussion; Appendix: other versions of the sack of Ilium; Total learning vocabulary.

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Introduction
Glossary of literary terms
Notes for the reader
Help with the text
Grammar
Metre and verse in the Aeneid
Bibliography
Maps
Book I. Aeneas' mission: from storm to refuge: topics for extended essays on Book I
Book II. Aeneas' account of the destruction of Ilium: topics for extended essays on Book II
Some views for general discussion
Appendix: other versions of the sack of Ilium
Total learning vocabulary.

Rezensionen

"The accuracy and the rigor of both the line-by-line commentary and the paraphrase/discussion, the validity of the interpretation, the rich understanding and the clear explanation of Virgil's art along with the helpfulness of grammatical and lexical tools make this volume indispensable for those students and readers who are longing to read the first two books of the Virgilian masterpiece in the original language, and for those teachers who are looking for an easy and possibly pleasant approach to introduce their students to the Aeneid." --BMCR